Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01

The Canadian Pacific railway compat
ny will assume the management of the
Postal Telegraph company on the Pa
iclic coast on September l.
The murderer Terrell, who is to be
executed next Friday morning at Coz
Iumbus, has been baptized and received
into the United brethren church.
| VIM. P. Morris, of Columbus. O.. a
brakeman on the Columbus, Hooking
! Valley and Toledo railway, was crushed
to death by an engine at Lancaster.
Burglars made a raid upon the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Samuel Chew, farmer
living near Lucas, O., beat him so that
death is expected, and secured $500.
Douglass F. Carlin, chief clerk at the
Cheyenne Agency, was married Friday
to Maiden Duprest, the wealthiest In
J, dian heiress on the Sioux Reservation
Thirty persons were injured Saturday
by collision between freight and q
passenger train on the Chattanooga Belt
railway. The injuries of ten are serious
J A Werner. President, and c II
Sleeps, cashier, of the First National
bank of Burlington, Col, are under ar
rest at Kansas City for embezzling $40,
900.
The Democrats propose free trade as
a means to relieve the National treasu+
ry of its surplus. Free trade would dc
it. 1t would bankrupt the country be"
fore long.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky says Cleve.
land Is the only advanced Democrat the
country has seen in two centuries, and
that there is not the least doubt of his
denomination.
An attempt to wreck passenger
train at bridge near Danville, ILL.,, Sat
urday, was frustrated by the watchman
discovering the piece of iron placed on
the track for the purpose.
The citizens of Honduras demand of
the United States the recall of Consul
! Burchard, who, in one of his published
reports, severely criticised the morals
and habits of the people.
While George Eyere, a miner at Ply
mouth, Pa, was preparing a blast, the
| powder ignitcd by friction, and the drill
with which he was pounding the charge
was driven through his body.
Democrats are groaning about the
surplus in the National treasury. Indl~
ana Dem ocrats are not groaning about
a surplus in their State treasury, which
officials of their party have robbed.
1t is claimed that the attempt to
wreck the Missouri Pacific train near
Wyandotte, Kas., in April, 1886. was
made in accordance with scheme per-
fected in knight of Labor lodgeroom.
The Ohio livestock commission has
issued circular prohibiting railway
companies from unloading cattle from
Texas and the Gulf states in Ohio unt
less they provide separate yards for
them.
Col A Hitchcock, an old Texas vet
eran, was burned to death in the de.
struction of the James Hotel, at Den
ton, Tex. He was one of the survivors
of the Fannan massacre at GOliad, in
March, 1887.
The committee of the G. a. R. at
Wheeling deny the report that Cover
nor Wilson's absence from the process
sion was due to an oversight on their
part and declare that he purposely abb
seDted himself.
The conservative workingmen of Chi
cago are still fighting to drive the So
cialistic element out of the United La
Dor party. and a Convention is to be
held at which the work is expected to
be accomplished.
The Directors of the Piedmont Expo
sition at Atlanta. Ga, have invited the
attendance of Union Veteran AssOcia-
tions, urging the old soldiers who fought
between Chattanooga and Atlanta to re-
visit the battle-felds during the Expo
sition.
w ] Burk, defaulting treasurer of
Calves county, Texas, who disappear
ed last November with $4,000, has re
turned to San Francisco from Austral>
ia, and announces his intention of re-
turning to Galveston contrary to the
advice of his friends.
The iniquitous convict lease system
of Georgia is doomed. By Executive
order, signed under great excitement,
Gov Gordon has called on the lessees of
Penitentiary companies Nos and to
show cause why the lease should not be
annulled. 1t has been proven that the
greatest inhumanity was practiced on
the convicts.
A battle with the Ute Indians occurr-
ed at place six miles west of Rangely.
| Col. One white man was killed and
several wounded. Eight Indians are
known to have been killed. The In
dians were forced to retire, and are said
to have retreated to the reservation and
given up the struggle.
Gov Richardson, of South Carolina,
has commuted the sentence of OXey
Cherry, the IL year old colored girl. con-
victed of murder and sentenced to be
hanged in September, to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for 5 years. The
| girl was convicted of killing year
old white child by administering dose
of concentrated lye.
The Georgia Legislature passed resi-
Olution taking away the $4,000 appror
priated to the Atlanta University unless
that Institute shall give the Governor
satisfactory assurance that it will not
accept white pupils. 1t is believed that
this resolution will be passed by the
Senate, and that the Glenn bill will not
be put upon its passage.
John P Kislingbury. of Rochester. N.
Y. whose brother was on the Greedy
expedition. and is reported as having
died of starvation June l, wants a
further investigation. He says General
Greedy reports having ordered man
shot, June 6. for stealing provisions, ,and
he does not see how his brother could
have starved to death when there were